Product Description: Chronicling more than a century of music history from every imaginable genre, this comprehensive reference analyzes the most important artists of popular music. Including biographies of the best musicians, composers, and singers as well as commentary on hit albums, singles, and songs, this essential guide also discusses musical milestones and the impact they have had on the evolution of music and popular culture...read more

Product Description: In recent years an almost overwhelming number of books have appeared covering various aspects of American folk music and its history. Before 1970, most comprised collections of songs with a sprinkling of biographical information on noted performers...read more

Product Description: The people of Buenos Aires, Argentina, were surveyed over a ten-year span in bars and tango clubs. The results, lyrics to the 100 best-known tangos, are reproduced here. These immortal verses reveal the human comedy of Buenos Aires and answers to the existential questions that arise on the Río de la Plata...read more

Product Description: In 17, Drummond analyzes the past, present, and possible future of music and the ways in which we hear and relate to it. He references his own contributions to the canon of popular music, and he provides fascinating insider portraits of the industry and its protagonists...read more

Product Description: 1974 - The Promotion Man - New York City, the second volume in the memoirs of longtime record company executive and Beatles collector Dave Morrell, will be published in October. The book picks up where Volume 1 – the high energy Horse-Doggin’ – left off...read more

An anthology of some of the best recorder music from the early Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classic, and early Romantic periods. The music of historically well-known as well as lesser-known and obscure composers has been included. Solos, duets, some trios, and quartets from the various periods and schools (German, Italian, French, and English) have been chosen because of their musical content and charm, primarily, and because they illustrate and typify the musical values of the eras in which they were composed. In some instances, keys have been transposed, signature and bar lines have been added. Separate movements, taken from sonatas and suites, have been included as well, in addition to some thematic material. The arrangements are primarily for the descant or soprano recorder. The alto, tenor and bass recorders are included, however, in duets, trios, and quartets. Phrasing breath marks have been indicated for use at the player's discretion.

Product Description: This book, 6 DECADES of DYLAN, is meant for the listener just beginning his/her Bob Dylan music collection. Inside the book, I’ve given a short review and synopsis of each and every studio album Dylan released between 1962 and 2015.

Product Description: From country and rock to soul and R & B, this one-stop reference covers all the hit songs of the 1970s, highlighting fascinating facts and entertaining trivia for each one. Along with the 170 chart-toppers of the decade, many other lists are featured, including each year’s top albums, one-hit wonders, and the most popular songs by genre...read more

Product Description: When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology would change the dynamics of what constituted a musical performance. 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South covers a revolution in artist performance and audience perception through close examination of hundreds of key "hillbilly" and "race" records released between the 1920s and World War II...read more

Product Description: The editors of Rolling Stone magazine present this definitive tribute to the 1990s—one of the most electrifying and explosive decades in music history. This fascinating anthology explores every side of the decade’s wide-ranging music scene, with in-depth articles by Rolling Stone’s best writers; rare and intimate photographs of fans, musicians, concerts and festivals; and flash-backs from some of the most seminal 90’s musicians, like Moby, RZA, Liz Phair, Bob Weir, and even Slash...read more